The two pie charts below show the marital status of the populations of Canada and Australia. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The presented two pie charts provide information on the relationship status of the residents of Canada and Australia.

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, it can be seen that a large part of both nations have been married. The Australians are more likely to stay in a spousal union. More people are single than in a marital relationship in Canada, where 53% of the population are parted from each other but are not divorced

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only 29% are married to the opposite gender and 3 % are joined with a same-sex partner. About the same amount of the Australian population is split up or in a conjugal union, 41% and 46% respectively. The proportion of officially separated Canadian couples is two times the percentage in Australia,

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, the figure is still low - 2%. The same quantity of people are widowed or have never been in a wedded relationship in Canada, just 7%,

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the numbers are 1-2% lower in Australia.